Liboiron, Tironi and Calvillo begin from a permanently polluted world. Their contribution is to move toxicity away from the narrow evidentiary image of molecules behaving badly and toward a political understanding of toxicity as a relation of power, reproduction, exposure and uneven endurance. Pollution is ubiquitous but not universal in its effects; it binds bodies together through shared planetary contamination while dividing them through unequal vulnerability, geography, race, class, colonial extraction and regulatory neglect. Toxic politics does not always take the form of dramatic public controversy; action may be slow, intimate, situated and ethical rather than heroic. Toxicity has temporal thickness: chemicals persist beyond human life spans, exposures accumulate across generations, and harm often appears through latency rather than spectacle. The political subject is not only the public protester; it may be the caregiver, the community monitor, the researcher refusing extractive methods, or the body learning to survive with damaged relations.
URBANISM MEETS ART